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Catch-22

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Catch-22	type	TVTItem
Catch-22	label	Catch-22
Catch-22	page	CatchTwentyTwo
Catch-22	comment	A satirical antiwar novel written by Joseph Heller and published in 1961, Catch-22 focuses on Yossarian, a USAAF bombardier on the Italian Front during World War II, who would very much like to not be on the Italian Front during World War II. It is considered one of the greatest books of the 20th century and at the same time is often gut-bustingly (if horrifically) funny.The plot mostly consists of an assortment of random events on base, shifting focus across several characters, but mostly focusing on the main hero Yossarian. Most events highlight the absurdities of life, especially government and war. Many details that seem random become significant later on, often with much darker implications.This novel originated the expression "catch-22" to describe a no-win situation or a double bind. The number 22 itself doesn't have much significance; the original title was Catch-18, which was changed so as to avoid confusion with Leon Uris' Mila 18, which was published shortly beforehand. The repeating digits in "22" symbolize some repeating events in the book and describe the feeling dejÃ vu.A 1970 film adaptation, directed by Mike Nichols and featuring an All-Star Cast, was a commercial and critical flop. There was also a 1973 TV pilot made with Richard Dreyfuss as Yossarian, but it was never bought. A sequel, Closing Time, was written by Heller and published in 1994. It flopped as well. In 2019, a six-episode miniseries adaptation of the book was released on Hulu.For the type of no-win situation the phrase "catch-22" has come to refer to, see Catch-22 Dilemma.
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Catch-22 / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Catch-22 / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Most definitely played straight.
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Catch-22 / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Catch-22 / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: The hospital ward where Yossarian stays at the start of the novel slowly empties out as everyone decides to stop faking their illnesses and leave. "All except the C.I.D. Man, who caught a cold from the captain and came down with pneumonia."
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Catch-22 / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Catch-22 / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Colonel Korn describes himself as a "man of no moral character at all".
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Catch-22 / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
Catch-22 / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending
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Catch-22 / int_1bcfe069	type	Absurdism
Catch-22 / int_1bcfe069	comment	Absurdism: One of the best-known examples of an absurdist novel.
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Catch-22 / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Catch-22 / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Gus and Wes, the medical men under Doc Daneeka. Also, Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren, although they have more plot significance. Not to mention Colonels Cathcart and Korn.
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Catch-22 / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Catch-22 / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Yossarian has this dynamic with at least a few characters; he and Dunbar often keep each other company in the hospital with schemes to preserve their lives through the war. Doc Daneeka and Milo also are quite amicable with Yossarian despite not really offering him any help.
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Catch-22 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Catch-22 / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Most of the higher-ups in the Air Force, such as General Peckam and Colonel Cathcart. Ex-P.F.C Wintergreen is a particularly extreme example — despite being a lowly mail clerk, he has become one of the most powerful men in the military because whenever he doesn't like an order someone sends, he just throws it away. Wintergreen claims he was about to cancel the Normandy Invasion until Eisenhower committed more armor.
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Catch-22 / int_1f88a426	type	Psycho Ex-Girlfriend
Catch-22 / int_1f88a426	comment	Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Nately's whore is something of an ex-girlfriend, especially after Nately dies.
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Catch-22 / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Catch-22 / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Obvious by the end of the book.
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Catch-22 / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Catch-22 / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: After Yossarian tells Nately's whore about Nately's death, she keeps showing up out of nowhere and trying to kill him, including in the very last line of the book.
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Catch-22 / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Catch-22 / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Despite Yossarian's bravado and seeming lackadaisical nature, he's actually incredibly upset about all the brutality, callousness and corruption of the military. Special mention goes to Dunbar, who was portrayed as a guy who wanted to prolong his life as long as possible by being as boring as possible, and later got so upset at the unnecessary bombing of an Italian village that he intentionally missed the target but also started getting riled up at the stupid and pointless orders of his superior officers.
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Catch-22 / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Catch-22 / int_222dc873	comment	Given how darkly funny the rest of the book is, the dark and extremely unfunny chapter "The Eternal City" is a kicker.
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Catch-22 / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Catch-22 / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Just about everything seemingly random actually comes back as a running joke, or with a deeper or darker meaning. Orr's constant crashing of his planes and unexplained battering at the hands of his prostitute turn out to have been instruments in his plot to escape to neutral Sweden; in the final chapter, Yossarian realizes that many of the stranger encounters between the two were attempts by Orr to recruit Yossarian to join him. Aarfy's insistence that he never has and never will pay for sex appears again in a much darker way towards the end, when he rapes and kills the innocent deaf maid Michaela despite the profusion of prostitutes in the city. Chaplain Shipman (Tappman in the movie and subsequent American editions of the book) has a plum tomato pushed upon him by Colonel Cathcart; later, this becomes the bulk of the case presented against him by the military police, another example of the novel's major theme of bureaucratic madness. Dunbar started out as a guy who wanted to be as bored as possible so he would prolong his life so of course he gets "disappeared" after he starts being excited and emotional about injustice.
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Catch-22 / int_22f5d1b9	type	Some of My Best Friends Are X
Catch-22 / int_22f5d1b9	comment	Some of My Best Friends Are X: Enlisted Men. Cathcart says this to the Chaplain when stating that he wants to keep enlisted men out of the prayers. The best part is when Cathcart tells the Chaplain, "After all, you wouldn't want your sister to marry one", and the Chaplain replies his sister is an enlisted (wo)man, a Sergeant in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve.
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Catch-22 / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Catch-22 / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Towards the end, when Yossarian names all his friends that died during the last hundred pages. Especially impactful since it happened so gradually that readers aren't supposed to notice until this point.
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Catch-22 / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
Catch-22 / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: Captain Black forces this on his men. At first he makes them sign loyalty oaths. Then, multiple loyalty oaths. He himself, had someone sign hundreds on his behalf to show how he was more loyal than everyone else. He also forced his men to frequently pledge allegiance and sing "The Star Spangled Banner".
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Catch-22 / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Catch-22 / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man Yossarian, but in a strange way: it's because he realizes that everyone (himself included) is crazy. It turns out that Orr shares Yossarian's desire to escape the military. He was just smart enough to figure out a way much faster. Subverted by McWatt, who is described as "the craziest combat man of them all, because he was perfectly sane and still did not mind the war." The chaplain is probably the most normal character in the book, although he's a bit paranoid.
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Catch-22 / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Catch-22 / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res
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Catch-22 / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Catch-22 / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Slaughterhouse-Five could be considered one. Both are rather similar in tone and subject matter, and contain satirical portrayals of World War II, although Catch-22 is more an absurdist look at the business and bureaucracy of war itself and Slaughterhouse-Five deals more with its aftermath. Heck, even their titles are similar.
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Catch-22 / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Catch-22 / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Nately's whore.
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Catch-22 / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Catch-22 / int_294ed981	comment	Orr rows away. "Orr" is also Swedish for "grouse", a bird known as a poor flyer. He escapes to Sweden.
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Catch-22 / int_2bbe31c9	type	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
Catch-22 / int_2bbe31c9	comment	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Aarfy.
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Catch-22 / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Catch-22 / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Nately's whore.
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Catch-22 / int_2dd590cb	type	Title Drop Chapter
Catch-22 / int_2dd590cb	comment	You can read the entire book and miss Yossarian's first name; indeed, you might think Yossarian is his first name. It's only mentioned twice: at the end of the "Catch-22" chapter and early in the "Snowden" chapter (it's John).
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Catch-22 / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Catch-22 / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: Aarfy said "he has never paid from sex". Turns out he is a psychopathic rapist and murders later a woman he has just raped.
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Catch-22 / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Catch-22 / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Captain Black justifies forcing people to sign meaningless loyalty oaths in order to be allowed to eat by arguing that those who don't are choosing to starve to death rather than proclaim loyalty to their country (never mind that he's not letting people he doesn't like sign). Likewise, Milo Minderbinder claims that he's a huge supporter of the free market and thus always makes sure there is an alternative to buying his products, which is why he lets the army men choose whether to buy food from him or starve to death.
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Catch-22 / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
Catch-22 / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Yossarian has a medical condition which keeps him just sick enough to get out of duty, but not sick enough to be sent home (another Catch-22).
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Catch-22 / int_30e6200f	type	Missing Steps Plan
Catch-22 / int_30e6200f	comment	Missing Steps Plan This is deconstructed, as Milo Minderbinder's step one is to buys up an entire crop of Egyptian cotton. Then he spends several chapters trying to figure out step two: how to profit from it, including an attempt to coat the cotton in chocolate and trying to sell it as food. This is also how everyone views the fact that he buys eggs for more then he sells them for but still makes a profit. He later lets Yossarian in on the secret, he's buying and selling the eggs from himself at that point, through front companies, so it doesn't matter what the prices are at that point. This keeps the competitors out of the business, as they don't see any profit in it.
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Catch-22 / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Catch-22 / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Milo may be some kind of amoral personification of capitalism itself, but he will not make business with Communist states like Russia (likely because they stand in complete opposition to his ideal of free trade).
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Catch-22 / int_3a893c13	type	Spell My Name with a Blank
Catch-22 / int_3a893c13	comment	Spell My Name with a Blank: Major —— de Coverley
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Catch-22 / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Catch-22 / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Because chapters are non-chronological, for most of the book, several major events remain noodle incidents. Great Big Siege of Bologna The Loyalty Oath Crusade The Avignon mission. They are eventually described, though. The last and most important being Snowden's death, described in the second-to-last chapter. The thing Orr did to make a whore hit him repeatedly with her shoe is presented as this, complete with numerous Un Reveals. Subverted when Yossarian finally works it out in the last few pages. "Because he was paying her to, that's why!" He was trying to get hurt badly enough to stay out of combat; when it didn't work, he faked his last crash and made his way to Sweden. The Dead Man in Yossarian's Tent (Mr. Mudd) is a particularly tragic one.
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Catch-22 / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Catch-22 / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Chief White Halfoat's family only settles over oil deposits. The suck part is that the oil companies figured this out and kept booting them off whatever land they stopped on.
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Catch-22 / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Catch-22 / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: The entire story runs on this.
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Catch-22 / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Catch-22 / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Many characters die without much fanfare.
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Catch-22 / int_43c5a4b7	type	Court-martialed
Catch-22 / int_43c5a4b7	comment	Court-martialed: Happens to Clevinger on a military version of a Kangaroo Court.
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Catch-22 / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
Catch-22 / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: Scheisskopf is the living embodiment of this as, despite not caring about anything other than parades, he gets repeatedly promoted until he's a General overseeing all combat operations in the area.
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Catch-22 / int_4a32f262	type	Reassignment Backfire
Catch-22 / int_4a32f262	comment	Reassignment Backfire: General Peckem keeps trying to get combat operations transferred under his command in Special Services. However, when he is reassigned to General Dreedle's position, he finds that this has occured. However, since his former second in command is now head of Special Services, Scheisskopf is promoted to Lieutenant General and, thus, is now Peckem's superior.
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Catch-22 / int_4ab9720d	type	I'm Cold... So Cold...
Catch-22 / int_4ab9720d	comment	I'm Cold... So Cold...: Snowden.
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Catch-22 / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Catch-22 / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Catch-22 itself seems to operate on this: "Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse..."
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Catch-22 / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Catch-22 / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Many of the book's most important twists are described within the constraints of a sentence.
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Catch-22 / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Catch-22 / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Peckem, Korn
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Catch-22 / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Catch-22 / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil Milo Minderbinder, a ruthless profiteer, but one who does attempt to protect Yossarian from the very bureaucracy that he feeds. He even aids Yossarian in his mission to rescue Nately's prostitute's young sister only to abruptly depart upon hearing of yet another new business opportunity. Lt. Col. Korn, the brains behind the blustering Cathcart, is about the most affable antagonist in the book, possibly because he knows he's evil.
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Catch-22 / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
Catch-22 / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Doc Daneeka. But no one will correct the official records.
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Catch-22 / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Catch-22 / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Major —— de Coverly has one, which is part of why he looks so commanding that everyone is too afraid to ask his first name. It turns out that he got the eyepatch after an irreverent old man thought he looked too haughty and tossed a flower in his eye.
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Catch-22 / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
Catch-22 / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: Milo Minderbinder is an archetypal war profiteer.
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Catch-22 / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Catch-22 / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Clevinger's trial at the hands of Lieutenant Scheisskopf, who was his prosecutor, defender, and one of the judges. And Clevinger was only put on trial because Lieutenant Scheisskopf thought he was being a wise guy.
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Catch-22 / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Catch-22 / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Wintergreen, who remains indispensable to the top brass despite being repeatedly busted back down to private.
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Catch-22 / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Catch-22 / int_641cf81d	comment	Yossarian's exotic name indicates his status as an outsider (and is almost an anagram of "Assyrian", his ethnicity according to other characters). And he's likely called an Assyrian because of the anagram. The name actually sounds more Armenian, and the character is Armenian in the sequel. Both Yossarian's name and claims about ethnicity are obscure reference to an Armenian American author William Saroyan who wrote a great deal about Assyrians. Since no one got it from the original, some more transparent hints were included in the sequel. Doesn't look like they were transparent enough. Armenians are, like Jews, a minority known for being an underdog. Joseph Heller himself was Jewish.
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Catch-22 / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Catch-22 / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Major —— de Coverley.
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Catch-22 / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Catch-22 / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: A rare literary example occurs when the narrator asserts that everybody likes Appleby. The next line is Yossarian saying, "I hate that son of a bitch."
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Catch-22 / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Catch-22 / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Averted, despite Yossarian actively fighting them. Aside from defending themselves with flak and trading with Milo, the Germans are a complete nonentity in the novel.
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Catch-22 / int_6a4a2085	type	Legally Dead
Catch-22 / int_6a4a2085	comment	Legally Dead: Doc Daneeka, who was in the habit of having his named added to flight rosters so he could get extra pay, and then one of the flights he was allegedly on crashed, so he was reported dead, and nobody with the authority to fix things would speak to him because he was legally dead.
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Catch-22 / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Catch-22 / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: A major part of the book is the fact that most of the cast holds their personal objectives (such as personal profit, loyalty oaths, military parades and the identification of "Washington Irving") as this, and disregard the smooth operation of the base and the prosecution of the war as being inconsequential.
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Catch-22 / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Catch-22 / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: More than a few. Lieutenant Scheisskopf's name is a calque of "Shithead" into German,note Though it's not actually a term in that language: the real-life equivalent is "Arschloch". and he fits the bill. Snowden is remembered for complaining of being cold. Orr rows away. "Orr" is also Swedish for "grouse", a bird known as a poor flyer. He escapes to Sweden. Yossarian's exotic name indicates his status as an outsider (and is almost an anagram of "Assyrian", his ethnicity according to other characters). And he's likely called an Assyrian because of the anagram. The name actually sounds more Armenian, and the character is Armenian in the sequel. Both Yossarian's name and claims about ethnicity are obscure reference to an Armenian American author William Saroyan who wrote a great deal about Assyrians. Since no one got it from the original, some more transparent hints were included in the sequel. Doesn't look like they were transparent enough. Armenians are, like Jews, a minority known for being an underdog. Joseph Heller himself was Jewish.
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Catch-22 / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Catch-22 / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: M&M Enterprises becomes this, as Milo gets contracted by the Americans and the Germans to bomb targets and defend them, even bombing his own base.
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Catch-22 / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Catch-22 / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: McWatt, after accidentally killing Kid Sampson.
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Catch-22 / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Catch-22 / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Colonel Korn
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Catch-22 / int_6f0966ad	type	Real Joke Name
Catch-22 / int_6f0966ad	comment	Real Joke Name/Repetitive Name: Major Major Major Major. Not even he had known he was named that (he thought he was called Caleb) until he enrolled in kindergarten. The news kills his mother.
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Catch-22 / int_6fdd991c	type	Overt Operative
Catch-22 / int_6fdd991c	comment	Overt Operative: "The men knew he was a C.I.D. man because he confided to them he was and urged each of them not to reveal his true identity to any of the other men to whom he had already confided that he was a C.I.D. man."
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Catch-22 / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Catch-22 / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: Much of the narrative is in Anachronic Order, and brief mentions of events elaborated upon later in the book (that don't make any sense at the time) appear constantly.
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Catch-22 / int_721e204c	type	Rapid-Fire Interrupting
Catch-22 / int_721e204c	comment	Rapid-Fire Interrupting: Happens any time someone is brought up on (usually nonsensical) charges. If the officers doing the questioning actually let someone else finish a sentence, they might have actually gotten some useful information out of the process.
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Catch-22 / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
Catch-22 / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: The novel and its various "Catch-22" situations become less and less funny as the narrative progresses, culminating with Aarfy raping and murdering a girl through applying "Catch-22" logic to his sexual approach.
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Catch-22 / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Catch-22 / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen. He's just a mail clerk, but he can throw away any order he doesn't like, making him the most powerful man in the Air Force.
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Catch-22 / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Catch-22 / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words "I'm cold." "Are you crazy?" "Yossarian, imagine if everyone felt that way." "Then I'd be a damn fool not to".
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Catch-22 / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
Catch-22 / int_75979171	comment	The Cuckoolander Was Right: The major reveal at the end.
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Catch-22 / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Catch-22 / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Nately firmly believes in Eagleland type 1, and argues with the Old Man over it.
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Catch-22 / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Catch-22 / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Yossarian brings a meeting to a crashing halt with what seems to be a prank question, "Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?" But as the story progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that this is THE key question of the book.
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Catch-22 / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
Catch-22 / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: Colonel Cathcart keeps upping the number of missions that crews have to complete to be sent home whenever it looks like someone might actually make it. By the end of the book he had more than doubled the required mission count from what it was at the start, which started out being higher than the required mission count as specified by Army Air Corps regulations. Unfortunately, thanks to a Catch-22, the pilots can't complain about this to anyone of high enough rank to stop this (theoretically).
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Catch-22 / int_7e345221	type	Snowball Lie
Catch-22 / int_7e345221	comment	Snowball Lie: The "Washington Irving" pseudonym.
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Catch-22 / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Catch-22 / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Clevinger is tried for "breaking ranks while in formation, felonious assault, indiscriminate behavior, high treason, provoking, being a smart guy, listening to classical music, and so on."
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Catch-22 / int_80d0d980	type	The Generic Guy
Catch-22 / int_80d0d980	comment	The Generic Guy: Exaggerated with Major Major. Everyone who meets him finds it remarkable how unremarkable he is.
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Catch-22 / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
Catch-22 / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Old Man in whorehouse.
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Catch-22 / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Catch-22 / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: The 2019 miniseries makes it clear that McWatt is this.
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Catch-22 / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Catch-22 / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Considering how loved Milo is in so many countries, and his amoral behavior could place him as a villain, he fits this.
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Catch-22 / int_87f5a0c	type	Bandage Mummy
Catch-22 / int_87f5a0c	comment	Bandage Mummy: The Soldiers in White, a fully-bandaged wounded flier has one tube going in and one tube going out, and once a day the bottles of fluid attached to each tube are switched around. At least one person makes the claim that nobody's in there, but nobody believes him.
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Catch-22 / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Catch-22 / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: The dead man in Yossarian's tent. Also, Snowden, whose death is depicted a few times due to Anachronic Order.
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Catch-22 / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Catch-22 / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The novel hops around considerably in time, and the only way to track what's happening chronologically is by how many missions Colonel Cathcart wants at any given moment.
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Catch-22 / int_8cd3d091	type	Repetitive Name
Catch-22 / int_8cd3d091	comment	Major Major (middle name: Major), who is named as such because his father thought it would be funny. This later causes an IBM Machine to promote him to Major, leading to his full title being Major Major Major Major.
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Catch-22 / int_91489a9a	type	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names
Catch-22 / int_91489a9a	comment	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names: Between the made-up or just not given names of the characters, it's easier to name all the characters that have average names as opposed to unique.
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Catch-22 / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Catch-22 / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Kid Sampson is accidentally cut in half by McWatt's plane.
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Catch-22 / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Catch-22 / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: The ending, with Yossarian finally beating a Catch-22 by deserting.
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Catch-22 / int_959f08aa	type	Vetinari Job Security
Catch-22 / int_959f08aa	comment	Vetinari Job Security: Milo can't be forced to go on missions like the others, because his nigh-indispensable trading empire is too complex for anyone but him to run.
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Catch-22 / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Catch-22 / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Aarfy, a rotund, absentminded, childishly-naive college boy, who has a strong sense of principles, is nostalgic about his fraternity days, and constantly smokes his pipe. He's also a sociopathic social climber, a serial rapist, and a murderer. At one point, he even goes so far as fondly recounting the kidnapping, gang rape, and robbing of two high school girls by him and his frat brothers to Nately. He seems to believe sincerely that Nately will respect this.
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Catch-22 / int_98ba5dfe	type	Unproblematic Prostitution
Catch-22 / int_98ba5dfe	comment	Unproblematic Prostitution: Nately wants to make an honest woman out of the prostitute he's fallen for, but her family is dead set against it. They consider prostitution to be an excellent way to keep girls occupied and thus out of mischief.
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Catch-22 / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
Catch-22 / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: Lots of it in the final chapters.
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Catch-22 / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Catch-22 / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	According to Orr, Appleby has "flies in his eyes", this being why he cannot see things as they really are. Appleby cannot see that he has flies in his eyes, because they impair his vision. Were there no flies in his eyes, he would be able to see whether there were flies in his eyes, but there would be no flies to see, and anytime there were, he would be unable to see them on account of the flies in his eyes. (Given the revelation at the end that Orr is more in touch with reality than he seems, he was likely speaking metaphorically, but the logic still applies — Appleby cannot see that he cannot see things clearly because he cannot see things clearly.)
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Catch-22 / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Catch-22 / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Cathcart and Korn want promotions and are willing to get countless soldiers killed to impress their superiors to make it happen. When Yossarian asks them why they want to get promoted so badly, they both seem to be genuinely confused by the question.
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Catch-22 / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Catch-22 / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: Doc Daneeka gets declared killed in action when a plane he was listed to have been on crashes. He can't convince anyone that he isn't dead, and eventually comes to believe it himself.
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Catch-22 / int_9fb8b0ac	type	Textual Celebrity Resemblance
Catch-22 / int_9fb8b0ac	comment	Textual Celebrity Resemblance: Major Major Major Major looks like Henry Fonda. Some characters even think he is Henry Fonda. Heller claimed to have written the book with a movie adaptation in mind — he wanted Major Major to be played either by Henry Fonda or someone who looked absolutely nothing like Henry Fonda. When a movie was made in 1970, they went the latter route with the casting of Bob Newhart.
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Catch-22 / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Catch-22 / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: Everyone in charge, to the point that Yossarian realizes in the end that if he were to desert, no one could stop him. So he does.
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Catch-22 / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Catch-22 / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash A whole lot, but a prominent example is when Kid Sampson and McWatt die, one gruesomely. When everyone thinks Doc Daneeka is dead too, it gets funny again in just about two paragraphs. Given how darkly funny the rest of the book is, the dark and extremely unfunny chapter "The Eternal City" is a kicker.
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Catch-22 / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Catch-22 / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Cathcart is only an aspiring general, but Yossarian considers him his true enemy for constantly raising the threshold for discharge in the 256th — which inevitably results in many more deaths in action.
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Catch-22 / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Catch-22 / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Milo Minderbinder, who ends up a fabulously rich businessman. Also Aarfy, who ends up literally getting away with rape and murder.
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Catch-22 / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Catch-22 / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Orr. Big time.
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Catch-22 / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Catch-22 / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Averted with the Chaplain, an Anabaptist, whom everybody calls "Father" nonetheless.
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Catch-22 / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Catch-22 / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Orr, and arguably Nately's whore.
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Catch-22 / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Catch-22 / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Everyone has one. Cathcart's hunger for fame, Aarfy's crippling fear of "paying for it," and so on. Milo's is most noticeable: his greed has consumed him to the point he is physically unable to pass up a chance at money.
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Catch-22 / int_abb15066	type	Corrupt Quartermaster
Catch-22 / int_abb15066	comment	Corrupt Quartermaster: Milo Minderbinder gets his start as one of these.
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Catch-22 / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
Catch-22 / int_abe1e24e	comment	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Yossarian has heard stories of slave traders in Africa kidnapping little boys and selling them to men who disemboweled and ate them. He wonders how the children go through that without showing any sign of fear or pain — he assumes they must do it somehow; surely nobody could knowingly cause a child to suffer.
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Catch-22 / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
Catch-22 / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: "The Natelys have never done anything for their money." So Lt. Nately's mother takes pride in telling him.
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Catch-22 / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Catch-22 / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: General Peckem (and just about all the top military brass) have one when they realize Scheisskopf, a Cloud Cuckoolander Pointy-Haired Boss, has been promoted to authority over them—and wants them all to march in parades.
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Catch-22 / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Catch-22 / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Old Man in whorehouse.
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Catch-22 / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Catch-22 / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Yossarian manages to persuade Colonel Cathcart to promote him to Captain after taking a second pass at Ferrara in spite of the fact that Cathcart was chewing him out for it. Major Major is promoted to Major on his second day in the army by an IBM machine with a sense of humour. Circumstances mean he cannot be promoted or demoted either. Subverted with Wintergreen. Every time he manages to get promoted, he ends up getting busted back down to buck private. He even managed to make Sergeant at one point. Scheisskopf ends up in charge of the whole wing because Peckem manages to get bombers assigned to Special Services and ends up in Dreedle's position, which is now subservient to Scheisskopf.
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Catch-22 / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Catch-22 / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: The eponymous Catch-22 keeps this from being a workable solution for Yossarian.
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Catch-22 / int_b5a47148	type	Captain Crash
Catch-22 / int_b5a47148	comment	Captain Crash: Orr, deliberately.
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Catch-22 / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Catch-22 / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Appleby, who always does what he is supposed to and always succeeds at what he does, causing everyone to not like him.
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Catch-22 / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Catch-22 / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor
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Catch-22 / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Catch-22 / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Yossarian
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Catch-22 / int_ba8b13ad	type	Catch-22 Dilemma
Catch-22 / int_ba8b13ad	comment	Catch-22 Dilemma: The Trope Namer. Done over and over and over, as befits the work that coined said term. Yossarian can be exempted from flying more bombing missions if the doctor does a mental evaluation and declares that he's crazy. But for the doctor to make that declaration, Yossarian would have to request an evaluation. Requesting an evaluation because he doesn't want to fly more bombing missions proves that he's not crazy, because not wanting to risk your life repeatedly isn't crazy at all. The brass at Yossarian's camp initially put on educational seminars for the men, but annoyed at having to actually answer questions, decide to limit the sessions to those men who would never ask questions to begin with. Then they scrap the sessions altogether—how are you supposed to teach students who don't ask questions? An Italian peasant woman deals with soldiers had claimed that the actual text of Catch-22 did not have to be revealed when carrying out orders related to it, meaning that "they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing." (In simple terms, "We don't have to provide a citation of the rule that allows us to do this because the rule that we're claiming allows us to do this says we don't have to provide a citation of it.") Captain Black issued an order that everyone had to sign a "loyalty oath", but did not allow Major Major to sign it, then began harassing him because he hadn't signed it and, when Major Major asked to be allowed to sign it, Captain Black continued to refuse to allow him to sign it on the grounds that he hadn't signed it when the order was first issued. Major Major uses it himself, giving his aide orders that no one is allowed to see him while he's in his office. But people must be allowed in sometimes, so he orders his aide to allow them to see him when he's not in his office. (When he sees someone coming who he doesn't want to deal with, but who outranks him, and therefore could countermand his order to his aide, he jumps out the window and flees into the forest, hiding until they leave.) A prostitute laments that no man would want to marry her, because she's not a virgin. But when a man professes a willingness to marry her, she flatly turns him down — on the grounds that she's not a virgin. According to Orr, Appleby has "flies in his eyes", this being why he cannot see things as they really are. Appleby cannot see that he has flies in his eyes, because they impair his vision. Were there no flies in his eyes, he would be able to see whether there were flies in his eyes, but there would be no flies to see, and anytime there were, he would be unable to see them on account of the flies in his eyes. (Given the revelation at the end that Orr is more in touch with reality than he seems, he was likely speaking metaphorically, but the logic still applies — Appleby cannot see that he cannot see things clearly because he cannot see things clearly.)
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Catch-22 / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Catch-22 / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: The book is plagued with them: Doctor Dan Daneeka, Colonel Carl Cathcart, Milo Minderbinder, and most famously, Major Major Major Major.
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Catch-22 / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Catch-22 / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Major —— de Coverley. No one even knows his first name.
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Catch-22 / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Catch-22 / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: God, where do we even start. Most characters above the rank of Major tend to count, particularly General Peckem, Colonel Cathcart and Scheisskopf.
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Catch-22 / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Catch-22 / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: The Chaplain.
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Catch-22 / int_c3c0768c	type	Soldiers at the Rear
Catch-22 / int_c3c0768c	comment	Soldiers at the Rear Ex-PFC Wintergreen always manages to avoid being sent into combat by manipulating the discipline system. Many of the other characters would do the same if they thought they could pull it off. Milo Minderbinder also avoids combat. His superiors literally grant him the medals from other men's actions while Milo stays safely in the rear.
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Catch-22 / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Catch-22 / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Dobbs's plans to murder Cathcart. As soon as Yossarian is willing to cooperate with him, Dobbs's plane crashes into Nately's, resulting in both Dobbs and Nately dying overseas.
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Catch-22 / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Catch-22 / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Catch-22's trademark brand of humour, so much that a logical paradox was named after it (the catch-22, of course). For example, Yossarian and company throw the uniforms of several generals out the window while they are naked, because if they are naked they can't prove they are generals so Yossarian won't have to take orders from them. Even the generals think this is a workable strategy. The Old Man in the Brothel. He proves how Italy will win the war because it is so weak.
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Catch-22 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Catch-22 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Yossarian's question "Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?" is this to Francois Villon, whose poem "Ballade des dames du temps jadis" has the refrain "Mais oÃ¹ sont les neiges d'antan!", translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as "Where are the snows of yesteryear?"
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Catch-22 / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Catch-22 / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Milo Minderbinder. Morality becomes a casualty of the profit motive to him, most notably when Milo begins to organise attacks for the benefit of the Germans, whose ultimate absurd conclusion is the bombing of his own base).
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Catch-22 / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Catch-22 / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Done intentionally.
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Catch-22 / int_d1726c18	type	What, Exactly, Is His Job?
Catch-22 / int_d1726c18	comment	What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Nobody knows what Major —— de Coverly's official function is, nor are they game enough to ask him.
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Catch-22 / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Catch-22 / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: McWatt's is "Oh well, what the hell." Milo has, "What's good for M&M Enterprises is good for the country!" and "...and everybody has a share." Aarfy: "Old Aarfy has never paid for it", in reference to sex/prostitution. See Chekhov's Gun below. Doc Daneeka: "You think you've got troubles? What about me?"
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Catch-22 / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Catch-22 / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard Doc Daneeka spends the entire book complaining that he was drafted just as his medical practice was becoming profitable. The reason it became profitable, naturally, is because every other doctor in Staten Island was drafted. Having his name added to flight crew manifests when he isn't aboard the flight, so he can get flight pay, leads to a situation where he is declared legally dead, despite being obviously alive. General Peckem spends the entire book trying to get bomber units transferred to his command in Special Services so he can have authority over General Dreedle. This eventually occurs after Peckem takes over Dreedle's command. Unfortunately, this now means that he is now subservient to General Scheisskopf.
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Catch-22 / int_d5b7a6e3	type	Denied Food as Punishment
Catch-22 / int_d5b7a6e3	comment	Denied Food as Punishment: Captain Black's Great Loyalty Oath Crusade required that soldiers sign loyalty oaths, recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and sing the national anthem numerous times before being allowed to eat — and then do it some more to get access to the condiments. People who didn't (or who weren't allowed to because the Captain didn't like them) were not allowed to be served at the mess. Eventually Major —— de Coverly pulls rank and forces him to stop.
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Catch-22 / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Catch-22 / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Many characters are known only by a short phrase describing them, such as: Nately's Whore, Nately's Whore's Kid Sister, Nately's Whore's Pimp, the Texan, the Soldier in White, the C.I.D. Men, the Maid in the Lime-Colored Panties, the Old Man in Rome, Dreedle's Girl.
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Catch-22 / int_d833090a	type	Right Hand Versus Left Hand
Catch-22 / int_d833090a	comment	Right Hand Versus Left Hand: The two CID men investigating Washington Irving are totally in the dark about each other's identities, and their investigations are hampered by their attempts to catch each other.
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Catch-22 / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Catch-22 / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Ficky-fick".
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Catch-22 / int_d959f4db	type	Immortality Seeker
Catch-22 / int_d959f4db	comment	Immortality Seeker: Yossarian is "determined to live forever or die in the attempt".
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Catch-22 / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Catch-22 / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Played straight by Corporal Whitcomb and Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife, but averted by Yossarian, Nurse Duckett, and (near the end) even the Chaplain.
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Catch-22 / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Catch-22 / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Cathcart, who has no understanding of anything beyond an immature sense of what's good and bad for his Army career ("Black Eyes" and "Feathers in His Cap").
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Catch-22 / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Catch-22 / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: While General Dreedle is a huge Jerkass, he also has no patience for the various bureaucratic nonsense that plagues Pianosa. Unfortunately, by the time the Chaplain thinks to appeal to Dreedle to stop Cathcart, Dreedle has been overthrown by the far less reasonable Peckem and Scheisskopf.
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Catch-22 / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Catch-22 / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Peckem, Dreedle, Cathcart, and Korn.
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Catch-22 / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
Catch-22 / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: A deliberate case. Pianosa is too small for a major military complex and has no permanent residents, instead being home to a maximum-security prison. The author even tells you before the first chapter it is fictional.
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Catch-22 / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Catch-22 / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis You can read the entire book and miss Yossarian's first name; indeed, you might think Yossarian is his first name. It's only mentioned twice: at the end of the "Catch-22" chapter and early in the "Snowden" chapter (it's John). Major —— de Coverley is so intimidating that no one is even brave enough to ask his first name.
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Catch-22 / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Catch-22 / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Yossarian is Milo's. Yossarian helped him save his business from Milo's flawed cotton plan, so Milo does his best to look out for him. Subverted when Milo sells Yossarian out so he can continue to stay out of the fighting.
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Catch-22 / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Catch-22 / int_e3c20140	comment	Lieutenant Scheisskopf's name is a calque of "Shithead" into German,note Though it's not actually a term in that language: the real-life equivalent is "Arschloch". and he fits the bill.
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Catch-22 / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Catch-22 / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: The Soldier in White is so covered by bandages that no one knows anything about him or even if he's alive (or if there's even someone in there).
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Catch-22 / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Catch-22 / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Nately's whore, after learning of Nately's death from Yossarian, starts hunting him up and down Italy. She even chases him back at the base a couple times too. Even after he bundles her into a plane, straps a parachute on her and drops her behind enemy lines.
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Catch-22 / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Catch-22 / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Milo. He'd be one of the novel's more reprehensible characters (quite an achievement) if you could define him by human morality at all. He views things less in terms of "good vs. bad" and more in terms of "profitable vs. unprofitable" — that is to say, not only does he believe that anything which is good for the free market is good, but he doesn't comprehend how anything that's good for the free market could possibly be bad. What's especially horrifying is that this attitude becomes the prevailing attitude of the army and the entire American administration: when Milo contracts with the Germans to bomb his own airfield, and is subsequently court martialled for treason, he gets away with it by convincing the court that it would be wrong to punish him because he was just being a good capitalist, and capitalism made America great. What clinches this argument is the sheer size of the profit Milo made on the deal, which convinces the investigating committee that it's fine to kill American personnel if to do so will make a profit. The Old Man in Brothel. His ethical concepts appear utterly disgusting [at least to Nately], but they are both consistent and flawless.
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Catch-22 / int_e9f79e23	type	Screw the War, We're Partying
Catch-22 / int_e9f79e23	comment	Screw the War, We're Partying
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Catch-22 / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
Catch-22 / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Major —— de Coverley, whose face is so forbidding that no one dares ask his first name.
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Catch-22 / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Catch-22 / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Captain Black, General Dreedle, Corporal Whitcomb.
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Catch-22 / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Catch-22 / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Much of the story centers around the fact that most of the people in it are too busy focusing on their various personal obsessions to care about the pilots, the smooth running of the air base, and quite possibly the war itself.
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Catch-22 / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Catch-22 / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: In this case, war is insanity, and not in a good way. Military procedure is a horrifying funhouse mirror of rules that any sane and decent person would come up with, letting the worst people get away scot-free while others are punished for minor or imagined slights. Nor does the book shy away from the kind of death and horror that accompany a more normal war story.
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Catch-22 / int_f3d84bc4	type	Giftedly Bad
Catch-22 / int_f3d84bc4	comment	Giftedly Bad: Colonel Cargill.
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Catch-22 / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Catch-22 / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: A number of Yossarian's more amusing friends either die or simply disappear. There's Orr, who turns out to have paddled to a neutral country. Dunbar eventually goes mad and disappears altogether.
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Catch-22 / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Catch-22 / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Orr pretends to have died in a plane crash to avoid getting caught when he escapes to Sweden. It's implied that a number of other characters who "died" were actually faking it, including Clevinger — only Kid Sampson and McWatt can be definitively said to be dead for real.
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Catch-22 / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Catch-22 / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department "'I yearn for you tragically. A.T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.' A.T. Tappman was the group chaplain's name." Major Major (middle name: Major), who is named as such because his father thought it would be funny. This later causes an IBM Machine to promote him to Major, leading to his full title being Major Major Major Major. "I didn't know they were any other Captain Yossarians. As far as I know, I'm the only Captain Yossarian I know; but that's only as far as I know."
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Catch-22 / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Catch-22 / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Description of major Major: "[...] he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual." Later Captain Black: "[...] when they remarked that Major Major was somewhat odd, Captain Black announced that he was a Communist."
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Catch-22 / int_ff202ce0	type	Scar Survey
Catch-22 / int_ff202ce0	comment	Scar Survey: A subversion of the typical "badass soldier revealing his past" — Yossarian asks Luciana about the scars on her back. She tells him that she got them as a bystander in an American air raid.
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Catch-22 / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Catch-22 / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Subverted twice with Milo. First, he tries to persuade Cathcart to not force Yossarian to take his missions, but then gives up for reasons that make no sense whatsoever. Later, he goes with Yossarian to rescue Nately's whore's kid sister, but runs away the minute he finds a business opportunity.
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